Arts
"I Love Lucy" Rough Draft-1st It is almost hard to believe that the television series "I Love Lucy" originated over 50 years ago. This is quite amazing, being that this show is still alive and kicking today. Who would have thought, that over 50 years ago a little show, based off of a radio program, would have had such an impact on the entertainment industry? Becoming a great legend, and bringing the gift of laughter to people for over 5 decades? Expected to become a flop, still "I Love Lucy" caught everyone's attention and brought never before seen ideas to television. The making of "I Love Lucy" revolutionized the world of television and helped evolve the entertainment industry to be what it is today. America in the fifties, less than ten years after WW2, was all about creativity. People were trying to find fun ways to make themselves happier people. The fifties were the years that rock and roll was born. They had teen idols such as Fabian, and Ricky Nelson. In these years Elvis would start to show his talent and begin his reign of the "rock and roll king". Amusing and fun toys like; silly putty, Mr. Potato head, and play doh were created, as Barbie would come in later in the fifties. T.V. was invented and right along with that was T.V. dinners (created by a man with to many Thanksgiving leftovers; might I add.) Western shows became popular as well as sitcoms, which is greatly due to "I Love Lucy". In July of 1948, Lucille Ball (a.k.a. Lucy), had agreed to do a radio program called "My favorite Husband". In it she played a dizzy housewife very similar to Lucy Ricardo. In 1950 CBS brought about the idea to her that they may want to make the show into...
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When evaluating art what does one use as criteria for the exhibit? Currently Washington State University's Fine Arts Museum is taking part in The Native American Fine Arts Invitational. They are hosting an exhibit titled "Art in Two Worlds." This exhibit is "celebrating the creativity and innovation of Native American artists." (Exhibition Description Online) The artwork enables its audience to "gain insight and expand their understanding of Native American Fine Art." (Deloris Tarzan Ament, April 3, 1989, F.4) Through different cultures, viewpoints, and various backgrounds, "Art in Two Worlds" does an amazing job of displaying diversity and Native American Heritage. With a wide array of colors, shapes, and designs, the artwork in the museum represents a plethora of individuality. One could interpret this piece in numerous different ways, depending on their personal perspective. The exhibit "Poonka Timertik Inua", also known as the "Punk Walrus Spirit", designed by Larry Beck, portrays a vision that the artist saw while in a junkyard years ago. Larry Beck graduated from the University of Washington with a Master of Fine Arts Degree. He tells us that he was in Skagit Valley at a junkyard looking for parts to his Toyota when he saw an Eskimo mask made out of aluminum mirrored in the side of a car. He then began making masks because they were interesting to him. There was something about them that intrigued him. While he did not specify what that something was, perhaps the unlimited potential of diversity in facial expressions captured his interest. He knew, however, that he no longer wanted to create traditional, figurative art. "Contemporary art no longer interested me. It seemed spiritually empty." (Quoted by Larry Beck) Encountering this mask, Beck came up with the idea to use only objects from the environment for his next masterpiece. He had...
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As early 20th -century artist all over the world moved toward the new and improved artistic ways, the relationship between art and money got weirder. With the division between the modernist figures of the starving artist, the wealthy and healthy has the power to make or break an artist. The contradiction between those behavioral archetypes has helped usher us toward our current situation in the 1990s, where contemporary artists are nothing if not confused about money. During this time most artist were constricted to painting certain kinds of art. Many different art styles were born during this time before World War II. These styles were important to the evolution of art, as we know today. Art Nouveau explores a new style in the visual arts and architecture that developed in Europe and North America at the end of the 19th century from 1890-1914. The exhibition is divided into three sections: the first focuses on the 1900 World's Fair in Pairs, where it was established as the first new decorative style of the twentieth century the second examines the sources that influenced the style; and the third looks at its development and fruition in major cities in Europe and North America (www.sociology/arthistory.com). At its height exactly one hundred years ago, Art Nouveau was a concerted attempt to create an international style based on decoration. It was developed by a brilliant and energetic generation of artists and designers, who sought to fashion an art form appropriate to the modern age. During this extraordinary time, urban life as we now understand it was established. Old customs, habits, and artistic styles sat alongside new, combining a wide range of contradictory images and ideas. Many artists, designers, and architects were excited by new technologies and lifestyles, while others retreated into the past, embracing the spirit world, fantasy,...
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. It was thougth that the Hito-rei edict of 1876, banning the wearing of japanese sword by Samurai, would have stopped the production of japanese swords. But, through the Hito-rei edict and the ban of sword production by us forces during WWII the japanese sword still lives today. Though this was true very few swordsmiths could earn a solid living on just making swords. But those few, for example Miyamoto Kanenori, were considered living national treasures. In the 20th century poor quality swords were mass-produced as weapons for the Japanese army and navy to inspire the troops with a sense of bashido, but as always with mass-produced swords quality was fist to go. These swords had little to no artistic quality and were regularly stamped with either a 'sho' or 'seki' kanji. These blades have a 'hamon' or hardened edge. However on Showa-to it is produced by quenching the hot blade in oil rather than water meaning that the quenching process can be carried out at a much lower temperature thus avoiding blemishes such as edge cracks or even nie. The 'hamon' produced is then an imitation and not quite the real thing. These are only collected by such collectors interested in Japanese military. When us forces came to the homeland in 1945 to democratize Japan they banned the production of Japanese swords as well as the practice of martial arts. No distinction was made between those with artistic and historical merit and Showa-to. The result was that many valuable and historic swords were destroyed out of pure ignorance. It wasn't until a few years later that there was any easing of the ban and this was for a special dedication to the Ise Grand Shrine which takes place every twenty-five years and had done so for the proceeding one...
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COVENTRY Archeologists have uncovered major finds in Coventry City centre in recent times. What has been uncovered is the site of the Benedictine Cathedral and Priory of St Mary, Originally founded in 1043 AD, by Leofric Earl of Mercia and Lady Godiva herself. The structure is vast. It measures some 425 feet long 1016 A nunnery dedicated to St Osburg was sacked by the Danes in 1016 1043 The first sign of Godiva. Her husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, founded a Benedictine Monastery on the site of the sacked St Osburgs Nunnery. 1057 Leofric died 1067 Death of Godiva. nb there is much that surrounds Godiva that is not at all clear. Some say she lived to a great age. Other say that she was much younger than Leofric. These stories do not tie in at all with the dates for her and her husbands death. 1086 Domesday Book records 69 heads of families in Coventry. So it wasn't a very large place for Godiva to ride through then was it? 1090-1100 Coventry castle built. 1136 Coventry castle razed by King Stephen 1154 Henry II grants permission for an annual fair in Coventry 1066 The Norman Conquest of England 1068 William I (1066-1087) abolishes the earldom of Mercia after meeting no resistance in the area. Coventry placed under the Earls of Chester 1068 William I starts the (re-) building of Warwick Castle 1086 Coventry in the Domesday Book is little more than a village. Rugby is called Rocheberie 1120 Kenilworth Castle started by Geoffrey de Clinton - the town begins to grow 1122 The Austinian Priory founded in Kenilworth 1123 William II (1087 -1100) creates the earldom of Warwickshire 1133 First mention of the Chapel of St Michael, later formed part of Coventry Cathedral 1145 Coventry sides with Empress Matilda against King Stephen in a dynastic war. King Stephen (1135 -1154) seizes Coventry Castle as a result 1150 Coombe Abbey...
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KH: "What is the relationship for you between the sound and the image? Is there a third thing that is produced?" KA: "It is the fabric on which the picture is woven. To me, it's as important as the picture itself. It's an integral part. It replaces what dialogue would be doing. It provides clue to my intent." Dick Hebdige notes that Kenneth Anger's films have the ability to appropriate "'humble objects' ... which are made to carry 'secret' meanings: meanings which express, in code, a form of resistance to the order which guarantees their continued subordination." It is in this way that Anger's re-appropriation and juxtaposition of culturally manufactured icons, images and specifically "pop" music subverts moral and social conventions of American society. A systematic analysis of Anger's 1964 film Scorpio Rising, reveals an understanding whereby every signifier is expunged from its culturally normative position and rather presented as a polemical critique of American societal value systems. Scorpio Rising focuses on the iconography of the American motorcycle cult, yet Anger expands the imagery of the film to implicate the Sunday comics, a B-grade movie of the life of Christ, Hollywood movies presented through the form of television, and, perhaps most strikingly, 13 hit records from 1962 – 1963. The film is clearly structured by the 13 "pop" songs, which constitute its entire soundtrack (excluding some sound effects, notably the racing of motors and the screeching of wheels), and which correspond fairly consistently to a segmentation by scenes. Through the incorporated juxtaposition between sound and image, Anger's Scorpio Rising creates an iconoclasm for post-war American societal understandings of religion, youth and youth culture, sexuality and masculinity, amongst many other cultural and social ideologies. Through the medium of filmmaker, Anger is able to appropriate, re-interpret and thus re-present the fetishistic cultural images which 1960's...
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"Written by a middle-aged man who had already lost two children, both parents, and his closest friend… ['Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost] …evokes a point in life when the golden illusions of youth have vanished" Frost tries to pronounce to his reader's that innocence, and youth are precious reminiscences which are inevitably taken away from every individual. Through-out the poem, hints of lack of control are suggested to the reader, and are supported by the diction and imagery Frost uses. Frost's poem explicitly shows that there is an inevitability of growth, loss of innocence and eventual death. The poem begins by the birth or a beginning of new life. "Nature's first green is gold," implies that the birth or conception of new life, is the most valuable part of life. It is the creation of innocence and blissful ignorance. However, this innocence is lost over time and Frost makes these claims through the line "But only so an hour" which implies that innocence is a very brief time in a youthful individual. Finally, Frost concludes his poem with the destruction of innocence when pronouncing "Nothing gold can stay." Frost takes the notion of life and takes it through the stages of new life, or innocence and eventually replaces it with maturity. Through-out the poem, Frost uses key words and styles of text, which give power to his writing. Through-out the poem, Frost keeps his language in a monosyllabic style of text. Each word is one or two syllables, and never more; this simplicity gives the reader the notion that life is simple but while you read further the simple becomes more and more complex to keep and thus innocence is running parallel to the simplicity becomes more and more difficult to maintain. Frost uses the word "gold" as a high...
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There are numerous ways in which Marelle Day reverses the conventions of detective fiction with Claudia Valentine. Claudia neither trusts the police nor her friends, and being a female she uses her legs for her own end, physical violence is not her game but seduction may be. The conventional private investigators would, undoubtedly, trust the police, as an easy method to have a trustworthy resource of information, which could be a laziness and avoidance of having to do the deep dirty work themselves, Claudia does not trust the police which clearly indicates that she is active and enthusiastic, eager to get to the depths of truths herself without a middle man wether that middle man is represented by her friends or the police. Her childhood experiences coupled with her life acquaintances have taught her not to confide her secrets to anyone or believe in any one, surely this is the essence of her success as an eccentric private investigator. Napoleon, the great French leader, once said, " your secret is not yours, as soon as it is outside your mouth!" Private investigators have always been, traditionally, males. Femininity has made Claudia's job easier, as her seductive legs, have been regularly used to fasten her deals, ease up conversations and soften rigid grounds. Physical violence, which is always associated with the male private investigators and occasionally even females, seem to be rarely used by Claudia. A clear indication of her intellectual capacity and an ability to manipulate physical scenes into intelligent games of chess. Diplomacy was said to have started when the primitive people preferred swearing at each other rather than killing each other as a prelude to civilisation, which is exactly what Claudia does. She uses intelligent tactics avoiding direct clashes, using soft female touch to gain what is usually obtainable through harsh violent...
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Popular culture grew a very great amount when MTV was created in 1981, and now 20 years later, after hundreds of shows, thousands of videos, millions on viewers, earning billions, and creating its own generation, it isn't stopping. On August 1, 1981, MTV began with footage of a rocket launching and the words, "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll," spoken by the channels cofounder, John Lock. The first video to be played was Buggles, "Video Killed the Radio Star." The video was hand-picked out of around 120 other videos by the first five VJ's. MTV was based in Manhattan and at its launch it wasn't an offered channel in the area, so the staff had to go to a bar in New Jersey to see their creation's launch. Musicians soon learned of the channel's effect and began to make videos. Billy Idol stated, "It was 24 hours of you, you, you, you in people's living rooms" (MTV Turns 20). Older groups like the Rolling Stones rekindled their careers with the new channel while new acts used it to begin their stardom. In 1981, the channel's founders were given $20 million to start. Within a year, they quickly turned the money into $12 million of debt, and by the end of the year they were out of the red and on their way to making history in the music industry (Allen 2). In the channel's first year, it was declared the product of the year of broadcasting by Fortune Magazine (Gunderson 1-2). Before MTV's dawn, music on television was on talk and entertainment shows. Radio stations in the U.S. had never been challenged by anything on television until MTV. Their "personal" and "on-demand" nature appealed to the viewers. It wasn't only the viewers that enjoyed the channel's characteristics. It appealed to companies'...
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Life of Picasso Art represents beauty. It represents the soul and spirit of the artist. It's a form of communication that the artist can use as a substitution for words. Art has flourished the world for thousands of years and it has no intentions on stopping. One of "the most important figure's in modern art" (Selfridge, 15) is a man by the name of Pablo Picasso. He has taken the world into many places and has enabled us to see many abstract creations through his artwork alone. Among his many contributions to art, his most important include pioneering the modern art movement called cubism, inventing collage as an artistic technique, and developing assemblage in sculpture. Born on October 25, 1881, Picasso was a miracle right from the start. There were complications with birth and everyone was sure that he wasn't going to make it, but then Picasso's uncle, Salvador Ruiz, was able to make this tragedy a miracle. He "exhaled a puff of cigar smoke into the baby's nostrils and suddenly…, he joined the world of the living"(Selfridge, 23). Picasso's miraculous ways didn't end there. He was soon to become one of the most well known artists of all times. Picasso's love for art was somewhat genetic. (Duncun, 45) His father, Jose Ruiz Blasco, was a painter as well and he loved art. Picasso was quick to express his desire for art. At the age of four, he was drawing detailed pictures with astounding results. (Duncun, 47) During school, Picasso would pay little if any attention to his work or the lecture that the teacher was giving. Instead, he spent his time making sketches of his fellow classmates. (Duncun, 52) At the age of 13, Picasso was enrolled at an art school where his father taught, and suddenly his academic habits changed....
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"The Lion King" has tastefully been brought to stage in the theatrical recreation of the widely respected film. Although most of the audience could already mimic the lines and knew all the words to the songs, Julie Taymor (director) was able to make the musical a new and exhilarating experience. The archetype of the difficulties of growing up and self acceptance were reserved but the play did twist the plot ever so slightly to make it its own. A new side story concerning Scar and Nala arises, captivating songs are introduced and the male baboon Rafiki is now an all knowing female intellect. These minute yet noticeable modifications make the play captivating and worthwhile. The acting in the musical seemed effortless and natural. The actors had obviously been well acquainted with their characters and felt comfortable in their roles. The characters of young Simba (Isaiah Grant) and Nala (Miranda De La Cruz) were well casted. Both actors demonstrated confidence and were tremendously joyful to watch. They brought an air of carelessness and merriment to the stage which was evident in their juvenile yet booming voices right down to their cub costumes. Although young Simba was so well casted I do not believe that the older Simba was portrayed as wonderfully. The older Simba played by Michael Blake did the part justice yet he did not seem to have that certain dominance that most of the other actors possessed. The antagonist, Scar, played by Richard Clarkin, was so well in character that audience members felt revulsion and dishonor when he strayed onstage. His raspy and distinguishing voice suited the character fabulously. Clarkin delivered his lines with grace which made his deviant personality come to life. Horace V. Rogers' performance as Mufasa demanded attention. Rogers' commanding gestures and arrogance added to the commanding...
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"The Lottery" is a chilling narrative of the darkness of the human heart and mind. The story is set on a beautiful summer day, in a seemingly ordinary village. The townsfolk gather for a lottery, wherein the winner receives a prize most unusual: death. Shirley Jackson makes powerful use of irony and symbolism. She describes the day as being euphoric and full of life, though it is in contrast with the atmosphere of the town and of the people gathered in the square. The lottery is officiated by Mr. Summers, whose name emphasizes the ultimate irony, as further seen when he is helped by the postmaster, Mr. Graves. It is also quite ironic that Mr. Adams, whose name suggests human feelings and desires and who was the first to bring up the topic of quitting the lottery, is also the one to first stone Tessie. The black box from which the townsfolk draw their slips of paper, is the symbol of death, as it becomes the very vehicle through which the prize of the 'winner' is delivered. At first glance, one might see Tessie as the hero of the story, whose voice in the end professes that the lottery 'isn't fair' and that 'it isn't right'. As a matter of fact, Tessie is a coward, as big a coward as the people of the village were. Until her own life was in danger, she did not dare be an outcast of the community and resist the ritual. She was even willing to put her own daughters' lives on the line. It is truly unbelievable that these civilized people consent to something as primitive as the lottery. All the members of the community participate in this ceremony, knowing full well that one of them will soon be dead. However, they still continue to do nothing...
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Photographs are a lot like art because when you take a picture it can take on a totally different meaning. I may interpret a photo or a piece of art differently then someone else. There is a picture that I have seen when Bill Clinton was President. The President is walking his dog and holding hands with his daughter and wife. I would interpret that the President is trying to be like the rest of the world in that he is a family man who likes animals. In the picture you can not see their faces so you can only conclude that they are having a nice walk. The picture is the way the photographer wanted that scene captured. That is how an artist is because they paint their view on something or the way they see it. In all reality we know that Bill Clinton was an adulteress and so the picture is not so much real to me. It is hard to believe that this is a true setting. I do not see him as a family man at all after having the affair. The World Trade center bombings were another tragic event in my time. We have seen plenty of pictures on this event. We have seen pictures of people at ground zero where their faces are covered with dust and every one looks the same. There are no black and white people. The picture symbolizes what America should be like. In art we see the same thing used. Artist uses things to symbolize what they think should be real. There is this art picture by Werner Horvath that has President Bush real big with lots of colors, mostly red, around him. In the bottom left corner is the World Trade Centers just as the plane was going into one of...
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1. Introduction Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) is new branch of pragmatics and second language acquisition (SLA). Initiated by Kasper (1981), it has received more attention and become quite fruitful through eighties, then was established as an independent discipline with the publication of ¡°Interlanguage Pragmatics ¡± (Kasper & Blum-Kulka, 1993). It was first defined by Kasper & Dahl (1991:216) as ¡°nonnative speakers¡¯ comprehension and production of speech acts, and how that L2-related knowledge is acquired¡±. Later Kasper provided another definition: ¡°ILP can be defined as the study of nonnative speakers¡¯ comprehension, production, and acquisition of linguistic action in L2¡± (Kasper, 1996:85). These two definitions differ in that the latter one widen its research scope from speech acts to linguistic action. Nevertheless, both of them consider speech acts as the core of study in ILP. As the first definition suggests, speech acts can be approached from their comprehension, production and acquisition, but this paper is confined to the production of speech acts. Research methodology is crucial to studies in every discipline, and it also holds true with ILP. Liu (1997) calls for studies on research methodology in ILP but there has been no paper concerned published in China so far. Kasper & Dahl (1991) provided a good review of the data collecting methods in ILP research, but it is a little old and needs a new paper adding more information. This paper focuses on the methods of data collection for speech act production in ILP study. In the following sections, I will first discuss on some questions to consider in collecting data. Then I survey some important data collection techniques one by one. Finally I show how mulitiple techniques are used in data collection with illustrations by some typical studies. 2. Questions to consider during data collection 2.1 Initial questions There are at least two questions needing consideration...
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Jackie-O is the daughter of a wealthy Washington D.C. couple, the Pascals. She has a younger brother Anthony, and a twin brother Marty. Jackie and the other children were given all they desired materially growing up, but were neglected emotionally, which lead to feelings of inferiority according to Adler. Mr. Pascal was a workaholic and the mother had numerous affairs that eventually led to the couple splitting up. Jackie and her twin brother Marty formed a bond between them as adolescents that the rest of the family did not share. The twins would spend the days playing with a video camera, giving tours of the family mansion, pretending it was the White House and that Jackie was the First Lady. During their early teenage years, Jackie and Marty attended an Ides of March party. Jackie went as the former first lady, wearing a pink Chanel suit with fake blood and brains on the fabric as a twisted joke. The party was a traumatic experience for Jackie-O because the other partygoers were disgusted at her idea of humor and shunned her. Marty was the only one to comfort and befriend her, and his gesture sparks a sexual relationship with his sister. The twins indulge their obsession with each other and the Kennedy family, even going so far as to dress up and stage re-creations of JFK's final moments. Jackie had always been possessive of Marty and hurt others in order to keep sole possession of his attention. Marty once kept a lizard as a pet growing up, but Jackie flushed it down the toilet in jealousy. The rest of the family turned a blind eye to the level of the twins' relationship, which ended when Marty left for New York to attend college. Marty arrived home on Thanksgiving a year later with...
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A Missing Piece The feeling that burrows deep inside Is a dying hope that I cannot hide Wondering if I will see your face Is like leaving the world without a trace Why does this feeling hurt me so Every time I see you go Is it the love that I do not shed As I leave the side of your bed As I look back at the hands of time I see that it was you I wanted as mine To see this phenomenon is a skill so great To have that pleasure can only be fate Love and freedom is in your heart It is more beautiful than a work of art So it comes to a final kiss Still something seems amiss So through the anguish and sorrow All I hope for is tomorrow And as the paper of life makes its crease You will always be the missing piece The feeling that burrows deep inside Is a dying hope that I cannot hide Wondering if I will see your face Is like leaving the world without a trace Why does this feeling hurt me so Every time I see you go Is it the love that I do not shed As I leave the side of your bed As I look back at the hands of time I see that it was you I wanted as mine To see this phenomenon is a skill so great To have that pleasure can only be fate Love and freedom is in your heart It is more beautiful than a work of art So it comes to a final kiss Still something seems amiss So through the anguish and sorrow All I hope for is tomorrow And as the paper of life makes its crease You will always be the missing piece...
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Thesis: The lives of black women have always been a mirror image to Cinderella, but it has never been recognized. And black men only see white women as Cinderella¡¦s. She compares Scarlet O¡¦ Hara to the evil step sisters and compares Butterfly McQueen to Cinderella. 1950 Disney movie Cinderella shows only white women can turn into princesses. - Twist on ABC/ Disney T.V. movie is that the multicultural casting - Whitney Houston ¡V Lena Horn (Blues singer) Denene Miller ¡V author of ¡§The Sistah¡¦s Rules¡¨ - says movie makes a growing loss of faith in black men from black women In 1980 27,000 new interracial marriages and they double by 1990 Virginia Hamilton- Mac Arthur Award Winner ¡V ¡§Catskinella¡¨ - Cinderella is strong willed - The prince wished to marry Catskinella and she makes him wait for her Personal Evaluation & Response: This author is blaming her own faults on black men. I think I can see her point of view better because I am African American. If a woman has a great personality, then her color doesn¡¦t matter. Vocabulary: postfeminist: relating to the assumption that the goals of the feminist movement have been achieved and that it is no longer necessary to fight actively for them. malleability: capable of being altered Thesis: Men are more associated with having better navigational skills while women better remember landmarks. Nicholas Wade explained that differences between men and women are based on the process of thinking. The human brain is distinguished structurally between male and female. Men „» better at math, or complex works „» better navigational skills „» men in china are better at rational test then women Women „» good at perception, language, and communication „» remember land marks „» ask for directions „» women in China are better at rational test then American men The structure of the brain is different: women¡¦s right and left brain is more interactive than man¡¦s one. I think that God made man...
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Every society has mythology. In some societies, it's religion. Our religion is consumerism. In a capitalist society, the goal is to make money, by whatever means possible, exploiting whichever potential weakness that might exist. The human race is one with a wild imagination, and this wild imagination, though a great strength, can, like all great strengths, serve as a potential weakness. It is our imaginations that advertising exploits, and it is our imaginations that religion and myth traditionally played the role of satiating, telling stories that have morals to them, lessons to be learned. Now consumerism fulfills this role. The consumer ideology serves as the golden rule, advertising serves as sermons, products serve as our idoltry, and just as religion instills faith at an early age, so too does consumerism. Ellen Weis (qtd. in "Advertising Characters" 1997) speaks from the perspective of one who is an authority on mythology. Her analogy between religion and consumerism is an accurate one. Undoubtedly, she's referring to this role that consumerism is playing in stimulating our imaginations. It does this by telling us a story, with us playing the lead role, painting a picture of life as being better with the products being sold to us. Our imaginations are carried away by these stories. We want to believe them because they make sense of the world. We want to believe that all it takes to be happy is a trip to the store. This making sense of the world and simplifying to such a triviality is exactly the reason why myths are created. For example, nearly every cigerette ad features a picture of an ideal person smoking their brand, ideal at least by the standards of most people who long to be accepted. For women, the smoker typically has long blonde hair, a beautiful smile, and perfect, white...
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Germany's Experience out West: German-Mexican Relations 1910-1918 By the early 20th century, Germany with the support of her axis allies rose to become the greatest world power in Europe. Being a fairly new nation with high nationalism Germany aimed to make her mark not only as the greater power in Europe but the world at large. Being late to the colonial game in the Americas and being politically challenged by the statements of the Monroe doctrine the Deustch intended to use imperialism as a means of gaining power in the America's. In this paper the German policy to Mexico will be examined. With research emphasis commencing in 1910 (the onset of the Mexican revolution), the major influences of Germany in Mexico before, during and after the Mexican revolution will be examined with close attention paid to the reactions of the United States to the German influence and informal occupation of the Latin American territory. The paper will unveil Germany's leading hand in the Mexican revolution and its aim to destroy Mexico's growing powerful neighbors, the United States. The paper concludes with the famous 1917 shock, the Zimmermann Telegram and the status of the German-Mexican relationship thereafter. Historical Background Since America's humble beginning in 1776 and her rapid growth as a nation attempts have been made to use Mexico as a counterweight. With the United States ongoing growth throughout the 17 and 1800's she fortified her boundaries not only with the armed forces but through a strong forign policy. The foreign policy of the United states showed strength and challenged the European view of them as a country and the Americas at large. Strength of the American policy was demonstrated through the institution of the Monroe doctrine (1923), this sent a strong message to colonial and non-colonial Europe of the strong diplomatic ties between...
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"In its incomparable proportions and reserved poise it remains one of the imperishable achievements of the human mind" (Fleming 32). In Arts & Trades William Fleming commends the Greeks on their genius masterpiece, the Parthenon. The Parthenon served as the glorious temple of Athena, the patroness of Athens, as well as the treasury of the Delian League. Fleming discusses the main ideas of the Greek's belief system and shows how they are exemplified in the Parthenon's structure, sculpture, and style. The three key elements of the Greek world view, humanism, rationalism, and idealism, are embodied in the Parthenon as it represents the epitome of Hellenic style. The Greeks saw man as "the measure of all things," and ranked themselves very close to their gods. On the cella walls of the Parthenon the Panathenaic procession shows the Greeks placing themselves amongst the gods. This confirms the Greeks belief that man's self-worth is equal to that of the gods. The Greeks perceived their gods as immortal beings that personified human ideals. The sculptures of gods and men in the Parthenon are hardly distinguishable. "The Parthenon's success rests on its power to humanize the experience of space" (57). By keeping it from being too luxurious or too complicated, the Greeks made the Parthenon a pleasing medium that is delightful to the eye as well as the mind. The Greeks believed in a world based on rational principles where nothing was left to chance. Each structural piece of the Parthenon fulfills its logical purpose. The strict repetition of the Doric order in the columns of the Parthenon signifies the logical system of the Greek world view. The exact proportions and ratios of the Parthenon were constructed to imitate the order of the cosmos. Greeks used rationalism to help create the idealistic idea of the Parthenon. Another...
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